A summary of the pragmatic view on education by John Childs is presented, and further explored. The connections between habits, character, and moral education are presented. The author argues with Dewey's assumption that to achieve one's full capabilities is intrinsically good, and claims that ...
Part of what is interesting about these claims is their unpredictable oscillation. They range from the nonchalance and provocation of Stanley Fish, who insists that no consequences follow from pragmatism, to the interpretative specificity of individual legal cases among judges like Richard Posner and ...
There have been several claims that neuroscience will inform, and even transform, morality and, more precisely, ethics as a discipline. In this chapter, I first briefly review such claims and underscore how they are often supported by a positivist (or st
In this paper, we make two claims. The first is that pragmatism's action theory and its epistemology are inextricable. For pragmatists, the world disciplines actors' theories not when they compare the world to their representations of it, but instead when they act in accordance with a theory...
is grounded on a distinction between the goals of science education and the nature of science instruction, and demands a discussion about how learning is to take place in culturally sensitive science education, and about communicative approaches that might be more productive in science classrooms ...
The normative question refers to what one asks oneself when considering whether one is obligated by a particular moral claim, and it essentially serves to illustrate the necessity of justifying these claims from a first-person perspective. The single individual is a concept Kierkegaard employs through...
is a twofold activity with a cognitive and a practical layer. In the practical layer it is test and exploration. In the cognitive layer, however, it is argumentation: Here we pose claims which, if they are taken seriously, become theses that are to be justified with reasons and defended ...
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we demonstrate that when moral issues are presented as practical problems rather than abstract beliefs, people consider morality to be less universal, treat dissidents with more tolerance and less outrage, and do not perform more immoral behavior at the same time. These findings highlight moral pr...
In addition, Descartes insisted that all key notions and the limits of each problem must be clearly defined. Britannica Quiz Philosophy 101 Descartes also investigated reports of esoteric knowledge, such as the claims of the practitioners of theosophy to be able to command nature. Although ...